I do not know what to say in a case so surprising, so unlooked for and so novel.
GALILEO GALILEII think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.
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Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
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Nature is written in mathematical language.
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought.
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.
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The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything.
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go.
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The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
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The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Holy Scripture could never lie or err…its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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Nonetheless, it moves.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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